Installing new device drivers

[F117NightHawk]

If you download a new device driver off the Net, say for your vid card or modem, is it advisable to uninstall the current drivers first, or can you just install over them? TIA.

 

[sohcrates]

Most of the time, you can just install over the old ones....If it's going to be a problem, you will usually see it mentioned either in the driver download or on the manufacturer's website that you should uninstall your old ones first.

 

[F117NightHawk]

Thx. I had used the drivers on the CD that came with my Logitech wireless keyboard to install the software (not actually a driver) that shows the NumLock and CapsLock indicators in the system tray (they evidentally forgot to include the LEDs on the keyboard). When I installed the new program off their website, I got 2 instances of the program running at startup, leading me to believe that the old one and new one were trying to run at the same time. I uninstalled what I'd just installed and then reinstalled it and now only one shows up.

The website never mentioned removing the old software first, but I guess they should have, huh?

 

[sohcrates]

<< The website never mentioned removing the old software first, but I guess they should have, huh? >>



apparently, yeah.

It's also possible that when you installed again you did so to a different directory...in which cases 2 instances of the same program WOULD exist.

either way, you're approach to solve the problem was the correct one